==== EViE : EVE Online Skill Training Monitor (Projects) ====


**March 2015 - changes to the EVE API have rendered EViE obsolete; this page is
here for historical reference only**




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EViE **was** a web-based **EVE-Online skill monitor applet** for the **iPhone / iPod Touch**.  It runs entirely in the built-in
Safari browser, with a little help from a proxy server that I maintained.




In addition, EViE could run on desktop machines using **Safari**, **Firefox**, **Opera** and **Internet Explorer 7**.  When run on a computer browser, EViE ran in a multicolumn mode to make the best use of the window size you give it.


I wrote EViE in order to tutor myself in the basics of writing AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML)
web applications, and also to learn more about my iPhone.




I am indebted to Althea Nar'agh, author of Google Eve Monitor, and Blue Wraith, author of the Eve
Skill Monitor Dashboard Widget, whose code was extremely helpful as I was figuring out how to
access the EVE API.  A few traces of their code linger in EViE (it's the well-written stuff!).  I have
endeavored to comment the Javascript in some detail, so those interested in fooling around with AJAX and iPhone
webapps may find a perusal of the source of interest (or, more likely, amusement).




Because of the restrictions on AJAX access to remote webservers, I had to implement a simple (ok, down-right stupid)
proxy server to run on one of my Mac OS X servers.  It's just smart enough to serve the applet and provide access to the
EVE API server, as well as implement simple server-side cookies in order to save your preferences and implement preference-sharing, and most recently,
manage and send skill training alerts via email.





**EViE features included:**

  * Automatic loading of character and skill information.




  * Large countdown timer.




  * Alerts you if the end time is during or near the daily downtime.




  * Selectable display of skills (All, Known, Partially-Trained, or None). Known skills are displayed in green, partially-trained in yellow, and unknown in grey.




  * Optional display of skill descriptions, training time to next level and skill prerequisites.




  * Skill prioritization, so you can keep track of your training plans.




  * Interactive keyword search of skill names and descriptions.  Wanna find all the skills that might affect your CPU usage?  Now it's easy!




  * Nice background image (a tiled version of the [[http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_923.html|DEM L 190]] Supernova Remnant).  This can be disabled if you do not share my taste in nebulae.




  * Automatic and manual refresh.




  * Mimics the iPhone interface fairly decently.




  * Lots of preferences, stored in cookies both on your device and on the proxy server.  If you are running EViE both on your iPhone and on a browser on your computer, preference changes you make to one will appear on the other!  This is **very** handy when changing skill training priorities!




  * Can display Race / Bloodline / Gender and complete Attribute & Implant information.




  * Ability to send alerts via email when your skill training is about to complete!




  * Multicolumn mode when you're not running on an iPhone.




  * If you add the page to your Home Screen, it'll use your character's image as the icon.




  * Optional manual override of implant bonuses.




  * Displays the skill training queue, and warns you when you need to add skills.


=== Links of Interest ===



In developing EViE, I found a lot of useful information about the EVE API and the iPhone.  Here are some links you may find useful:


  * [[http://myeve.eve-online.com/api/doc/|EVE API Documentation]]
  * [[http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=81368|Computing Skill Training times]]
  * [[http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/|Apple's iPhone Development Center]]
  * [[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Canvas_tutorial|Canvas Tutorial]] (lets you do complex vector graphics in Javascript; I don't need this, but stumbled upon it)
  * [[http://code.google.com/p/iui/wiki/Introduction|iUI User Interface Toolkit]] (an alternative to Apple's sample code, does sideways list scrolling in CSS, etc.  Wish I'd found this earlier, it's quite nice.)
  * [[http://lists.apple.com/archives/Web-dev/2007/Jul/msg00002.html|iPhone Font List]]
  * [[http://www.cornerspeed.com/kasey/esm/|The EVE Skill Monitor Widget]]
  * [[http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data|The DATA URI Kitchen]] (generates DATA URIs for embedding in your pages)
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest|XMLHttpRequest - Wikipedia]]
  * [[http://hiptools.net/sms/|HipTools EMAIL -> SMS Gateway list]]
  * [[http://groupaware.mobi/iphone/|Groupaware's iPhone User Interface Examples]] - great place to crib CSS to make things look iPhoney!





=== Copyright and Legal Information ===



©2008 Robert Woodhead. Released under GPL -- though parts of the CSS are cribbed from Apple's
style samples.